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Ang Davies, Andy Brass, Alan Davies, Iliada Eleftheriou, Patrick Mitchell, and Fran Hooley

Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is designed for health and social care professionals in the UK. It is relevant to any non-UK healthcare professionals who want to understand the basic concepts, challenges and opportunities of AI in their respective healthcare systems. The course is also useful for those with relevant skills outside the NHS who have an interest in new professional groups emerging from AI, such as clinical data scientists, medical software engineers, and digital medicine specialists. You can use the hashtag #FLTransformAIHealthcare to talk about this course on social media.

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Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is designed for health and social care professionals in the UK. It is relevant to any non-UK healthcare professionals who want to understand the basic concepts, challenges and opportunities of AI in their respective healthcare systems. The course is also useful for those with relevant skills outside the NHS who have an interest in new professional groups emerging from AI, such as clinical data scientists, medical software engineers, and digital medicine specialists. You can use the hashtag #FLTransformAIHealthcare to talk about this course on social media.

Topics Covered

  • Introduction to the wider context of the challenges and opportunities impacting on Healthcare as outlined in the Topol Report
  • New and upcoming technological developments and their ethical, social, and legal implications
  • Wider patient pathway focusing on specific cases and datasets from different areas such as Nursing, Radiography and Deep Learning /Cancer
  • Challenges of governance, ‘team science’ and interdisciplinary working, data quality in the NHS
  • Practice-based case studies illustrating where the skills gaps have been addressed
  • Practical and practice-based CPD activities

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